When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again.

Women marry men hoping they will change. Men marry women hoping they will not. So each is inevitably disappointed.

I firmly believe that love [of a subject or hobby] is a better teacher than a sense of duty – at least for me.

You can’t blame gravity for falling in love.

Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love and devotion toward men and toward objective things.

"When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece."

My scientific work is motivated by an irresistible longing to understand the secrets of nature and by no other feelings. My love for justice and the striving to contribute towards the improvement of human conditions are quite independent from my scientific interests.

I love the women's movement, and I never thought of it as belonging to any particular segment of the population.

I made my first white women friends in college; they loved me and were loyal to our friendship, but I understood, as they did, that they were white women and that whiteness mattered.

People really had a problem with my disinterest in submission. They had a problem with my intellect, and they had a problem with my choice of lovers. They had a problem with my choice of everything.

I know black people love the idea that we finally have a beautiful, good-looking black president. But if he is doing awful things to us, we should wake up.

I don't know if I've ever cared much what others think.

The fact is that when you do something from your heart, you leave a heart print.

Once you feel loved by the universe, you're already accepted, and you're not really concerned about offending people.

I believe you mother everybody, not in a cloying, hovering way, but taking care of what is around you.

You bring children into the world. You love them with heart and soul.

I think 'The Color Purple' is so bursting with love, the need for connection, the showing of the need for connection around the globe.

I love us so incredibly, insanely deeply; it's almost unbearable to see what we do to ourselves.

I love the natural world - it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.

Yes, Mother. I can see you are flawed. You have not hidden it. That is your greatest gift to me.

You know how big love is? Love is big. love can hold anger; love can even hold hatred.

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.

I try to teach my heart not to want things it can't have.